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When Rome defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra and annexed Egypt, the rule of the longest-lived of the Hellenistic dynasties and one of the most illustrious in Egyptian history came to an end. For nearly three hundred years, the Macedonian dynasty known as the Ptolemaic had controlled Egypt and its mixed population of Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians, and Jews. The founder of this dynasty, Ptolemy I (367-283/2 BC), was a boyhood friend and eventually personal bodyguard of Alexander the Great, who fought alongside Alexander in the epic battles that toppled the Persian Empire, and brought about a Macedonian Empire stretching from Greece to India.After Alexander's death, his senior staff carved up his vast empire, with Ptolemy gaining control of Egypt. There he built up his power base in Egypt, introduced administrative and economic reforms that made his family fabulously wealthy, and by extending Egypt's possessions overseas founded an Egyptian Empire. In addition to his political and military prowess, Ptolemy was an intellectual, who patronized the mathematician Euclid, wrote an important account of Alexander's campaign in Asia, and established the famous Library and Museum at Alexandria, which were the cultural heart of the entire Hellenistic Age. Ptolemy ruled Egypt until he died of natural causes in his early eighties.Ian Worthington's Ptolemy I--the first full-length biography of its kind in English--traces the life of Ptolemy from his boyhood to his reign as king and pharaoh of Egypt. Throughout, he highlights the achievements that profoundly shaped both Egypt's history and that of the early Hellenistic world. He argues that Ptolemy was by far the greatest of Alexander's Successors, and that he was a conscious imperialist who even boldly attempted to seize Greece and Macedonia, and be a second Alexander.
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CONTENTSList of Maps and FiguresAncient Works and AbbreviationsMap 1. Alexander's Empire Map 2. Greece and Macedonia Map 3. The Hellenistic World Map 4. Egypt and SyriaIntroduction: From Cleopatra to Ptolemy1. The Young Ptolemy2. Invading Persia with Alexander3. The Campaign in Afghanistan4. To India and Back5. Ptolemy and the Rise of the Successors6. From Babylon to Egypt7. Ptolemy under Attack8. Alexander's Corpse9. From Satrap to King10. First Among Equals11. Ptolemy and Egypt12. The End - and BeyondAppendix 1: Ptolemy's History of Alexander Appendix 2: The Sources of Information TimelineV111BibliographyIndexIndex
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